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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In the mad dash for small firms to secure capital, many sought their PPP loans from banks other than their usual financial service providers, creating a logistical nightmare for financial institutions (FIs) that still rely on manual and outdated customer onboarding workflows. On Tuesday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2018

News came this week that Jinse, an information service that is backed by Node Capital, was among the accounts impacted in the freeze. The Tencent -owned site is also used for in-store purchases and payments, in addition to news.) To that end, the government plans to block access to those sites and implement real-time monitoring.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 24, 2016

In a stunning vote, British citizens decided to leave the European Union, and the so-called Brexit has not just profound implications for fintech, but creates massive uncertainty for global financial services. tweeted Eileen Burbidge, a partner at Passion Capital and FinTech Envoy of HM Read More. How can we be so stupid?”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Credit cards are the penultimate payments experience that you could say started it all. 3 is Capital One Mobile , with money transfer giant Wells Fargo Mobile charting at No. 7 as the giant experiments with social media this year. Is there anything as awesome as a credit card? OK, lots of things, but come on. The Top 10.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck. But the fintech market has rebounded.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 22, 2018

The social media/fintech executive made headlines in the crypto world.Read More. EXCLUSIVE— With cryptocurrencies losing their luster in the public — and the regulatory — eye, some in financial services still remain bullish on the currency even as its value falls.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 12, 2018

Most fintech startups don’t survive. The landscape of payments, lending, artificial intelligence might seem bustling thanks to all the industry hoopla around it, but the success rate for a startup to make it in these fields — or for that matter any of 15-plus fintech segments — is slim.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Business confidence remains relatively high, but the latest analysis from CB Insights found that venture capital (VC) investment took a turn for the worse in Q1. Reports earlier this week in the Financial Times revealed that global venture capital funding dropped 13 percent to $6.3 Webware.io. Canada’s Webware.io

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

But then again, only two weeks into 2020, mergers and deal-making in payments, specifically within digital payments and FinTech, are sizzling. The biggest one, so far, of course, has been Visa inking a deal to purchase FinTech firm Plaid for $5.3 Pinterest: Pinned as the third largest social media platform in the U.S.,

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The startups are:[link] Avocado Payments, Budgit Inc., Community Capital Technologies, Denizen Financial, Diro Inc., Six of the startups come from INV Fintech, this website’s sister […]. The 12 startups demoing to try to win the “best in show” award at Bank Innovation Ignite have been unveiled. Exagens Corp.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

This year’s theme is “Shop Small and Share Joy” – and Amex is betting the store, as it were, on social media, saying in a statement that “according to the American Express Shop Small Impact Study … the majority (78 percent) of small business owners say that positive feedback on social media is a significant driver of business.”.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 9, 2018

EXCLUSIVE - On March 6 in San Francisco, 12 impressive startups demoed their latest in fintech technology at INV Fitnech's 2nd annual demo day. INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to Bank Innovation, is partnered with Fiserv and eight banking partners with over $3 trillion dollars in assets.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

In the always-on, 24/7/365 economy, payments that circle the globe should conceivably be as simple as those made in a peer-to-peer (P2P) transaction. Well, cross-border payments are fraught with friction, especially when it comes to business-to-business, or B2B. The reality? Macro Trends as Tailwinds. The Challenges of Cross-Border .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Digitization is essential to helping to expand the parameters of availability for global traders, though FinTechs haven't been able to fully capitalize. But that, too, will depend on member participation, Lee said.

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Bussman Advisory

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Join Oliver Bussmann, CEO of Bussmann Advisory and Elevandi Board Member, the 7th edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) on 2 – 4 November organized by Elevandi and MAS. Oliver will be SFF panelist “The Curious Case of Capital Deployment” on November 2. More information on www.bussmannadvisory.com.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The innovation of fintech is not limited to retail banking, according to the UK Investment Association, which today said it would launch an accelerator for fintech starts focused on AI, ML, DLT technologies in the asset management sector. Investment Association is a 240-member community.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2016

Emirates NBD, one of the Middle East’s largest banking groups, is hosting a hackathon in partnership with Berlin-based Open Bank Project in London, the reported fintech capital of the world, April 15 to 17. The deadline for early applications is today. The event takes place at Level39 in Canary Wharf — where Read More.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

B2B FinTech saw one of its most stellar funding weeks in a while, led, of course, by the high-profile Bill.com investment. In all, the industry secured more than $324 million with B2B payments, logistics and artificial intelligence leading the way. B2B Payments. Payment Rails. A healthy $1.1 Artificial Intelligence.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2017

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, announced its third cohort of startups today. Here are the five companies of Class 3 of INV Fintech: CoverHero is an intelligent insurance roboadvisor that helps users manage, understand, and buy […].

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

EXCLUSIVE — With government-backed initiatives and a finite business of copper export, Nathan Lustig, co-founder and managing partner at Magma Partners, saw huge potential in the Chilean fintech market. Additionally, […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In addition to forced closures, supply chain disruptions are causing payment bottlenecks, and many invoices are going unpaid. "We When an organization is bearing an ever-increasing burden of outstanding accounts receivables, there are multiple sources of capital to which it can turn. The Predatory Lending Trap. It's a juggling act.".

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In today’s top payments news, Amazon Alexa users can now receive medication reminders and make voice requests for refills. The social media company made multiple bids for Fitbit in October, with a final offer of $7.30 Ant Financial Ramps up SEA Capital With $1B Fund. Silicon Valley Braces as VCs Pump the Brakes.

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Lars Markull

MAY 30, 2020

You have probably read somewhere that Shopify is now becoming a FinTech company due to the launch of a couple of new products. A few years ago it was quite easy to identity Fintech players but the lines are getting blurry. Surely, this payment option will also increase the number of purchases for Shopify. But are they?

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Insights on Business

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The dominant story is that fintech startups and banks are better off as friends than foes. Fintech, once seen as a disruptor, is now becoming a mainstream and also a collaborating partner. Banks provide trust and infrastructure to a partnership with fintech. Learn more: Tom Eck, CTO industry platforms IBM, sweet talks fintech.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The clock is ticking on FinTech Acquisition Corp. FinTech Acquisition Corp, believed to be the only “blank check” company in the fintech sector today, has by rule until Aug. 19 to consummate an acquisition with its $100 million, or face dissolution.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Facebook announced partnerships with an array of venture capital funds as part of its VC Brand Incubator initiative, which is reportedly the first in a series of programs the social media and technology conglomerate has launched in India to support small businesses.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

Investors are fueling growth for B2B FinTechs across Asia, with startups in Indonesia, Singapore and India securing most of the more than $125 million raised in recent days. Newid Capital and angel investors also participated, reports said. eProcurement. This week the company revealed a $3.8

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

FinTech is on the march, and one area where progress is highly visible is in the growing gig economy ecosystem. The interview came amid fallout from another digital outage that impacted payments and millions of online customers. But there are also other factors at play — among the main ones is consumer trust. Inevitable Problems.

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Lex Sokolin

MARCH 31, 2021

Fintech is something some people are interested in, but crypto is something that can make people rich. like banks) confirm the identities of over 300 million customers around mobile payments and onboarding use-cases, generating $100 million in revenue. Other forms of social capital are just as valuable?—?from

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

INV Fintech, the sister accelerator to this site, is pleased to announce its inaugural episode of INV Unfiltered — a new monthly podcast series, which will cover current trends and intriguing topics in financial technology and beyond.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Customer loyalty and FinTech Paytronix wrote a blog post about the benefits of gift cards for restaurants, which can help ease the burden many are facing during the ongoing coronavirus crisis. It’s no secret that restaurants nationwide are hurting as we combat the spread of COVID-19.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2017

More fintech is coming to Austin. The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others. The event is the 9th annual pitch session for SXSW’s accelerator.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

The small business credit gap is a global issue, a problem that banks and FinTechs continue to hack away at, yet one that remains stubbornly persistent. It’s a self-perpetuating scenario that keeps barriers to capital in place. Asymmetric Information Exchange. Improving The SMB Lending Experience.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Not the financial industry’s “Troublemakers ” – those regional and community banks, credit unions and supporting fintech entrepreneurs who continue to engage customers and communities and find niches that keep the grassroots of our country’s financial system alive and kicking. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 24, 2016

Y Combinator President Sam Altman knows fintech — he helped Green Dot build GoBank, after all. So when only two fintech startups made it to the stage yesterday at Day 1 of its Summer Demo Day(s) 2016, we took notice. But today 10 of the 48 demoing companies are fintech-focused, Read More.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2016

Calling all fintech startups — today marks the opening of the application period for the second class of INV Fintech, a global accelerator operated by Bank Innovation and Fiserv. Interested startups can apply here. The application period will close Friday, September 9. INV, which launched in January, is the first Read More.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

There have been issues with approval processes and disbursing of these funds, however, due to struggles with high application volumes and outdated payments infrastructure that is unequipped to handle such volumes. SMBs across the U.S.

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